Charles Edmond Kayser

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Charles Edmond Kayser (born April 28, 1882 in Paris ; † 1965 there ) was a French painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

life and work

Kayser was the son of Louis Kayser and his wife Emma (née Marx). He began drawing at a young age, visiting museums and studying the spirit of old masters such as Lucas Cranach, Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot , which he later copied as part of his training.

From 1900 he was a student of Eugène Carrière , but remained largely self-taught . He worked for several years in a studio with his friends Henri Léopold Lévy , Robert Linaret and Henri Vergé-Sarrat . Soon they were exhibiting , together or separately, in the Barbazanges gallery and at Berthe Weill's . Roger Marx wrote about them: “What strikes you at first glance is the natural power: you feel deeply touched by the sensitivity of these images, which on the other hand are bursting with power.” From 1902 he did his military service in the 12th Infantry Regiment and was released as a reservist on October 1, 1906.

During the First World War , Kayser initially served as a medic and later in the cartographic service. He captured the horrors and suffering of war in drawings and portraits of the wounded.

In 1928 Kayser met his future wife, the Belgian painter and poet Mercedes Legrand .

Kayser taught painting at the Académie Scandinave until it closed in 1935 . In 1938, Kayser was appointed director of the Musée national Adrien Dubouché and the École nationale d'art décoratif in Limoges . His work came to an end with the turmoil of the Second World War : released because a Jew, he left Limoges in 1941 with his family for the Sud zone (→ Vichy regime ) in Avignon . In 1946, after the death of his wife, he returned to Paris. He started painting again and received the Prix ​​Eugène Carrière in 1949 .

Kayser often took the motifs of his etchings from the northern French landscapes and the picturesque districts of old Paris, whose beauties he explored with a subtle needle in a conservative way that lovingly emphasized the topographical. Numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions in France and abroad accompanied Kayser's artistic career. Always open and curious, Kayser remained independent from fads. In the last years of his life, his oeuvre became increasingly abstract, innovative, often in imaginary, fantastic and colorful landscapes.

Edmond Kayser died in 1965 with a brush in hand in front of his easel in his Paris studio on Rue Saint-André des Arts ( 6th arrondissement )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b birth register for the year 1882, p. 10 of 31 Kayser 1818 archives.paris.fr.
  2. ↑ Recruitment paper Kayser, Charles Edmond, Matricule 763. archives.paris.fr.
  3. ↑ Named after the painter Eugène Carrière (1849–1906).
personal data
SURNAME Kayser, Charles Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, printmaker and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Paris , France